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Stewart Collins with music, news, weather and arts news, including at approximately
7.00 August de Boeck
Fantasy on Two Flemish Folk Tunes
Brussels Radio
Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Alexander Rahbari
7.30 Haydn Symphony No 91 in E flat
Hanover Band, director Roy Goodman
8.00 Massenet Scene finale: Macbeth (Scenes dramatiques)
Monte Carlo Opera
Orchestra, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
8.40 Rossini, arr Britten Matinees musicales
New Flemish Symphony Orchestra, conductor
Patrick Peire
John Thornley presents Bach's music for the Collegium Musicum that gave orchestral concerts under his direction at the coffee houses of Gottfried
Zimmerman.
"The participants are chiefly students, but there are some excellent musicians among them ..." (Leipzig Journal, 1736).
Harpsichord Concerto in F minor (BWV 1056) Amsterdam Baroque
Orchestra, director
Ton Koopman (harpsichord) Coffee Cantata
(BWV211)
Emma Kirkby (soprano), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor), David Thomas
(bass), Academy of Ancient Music, director Christopher Hogwood
Suite No 3 in D
(BWV1068)
La Petite Bande, director Sigiswald Kuijken. Discs
Mass for the feast of the Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul as it might have been celebrated in the Sistine Chapel during Palestrina's lifetime.
Mass and Motet: Tu es
Petrus a Taverner Consort and Choir, director Andrew Parrott
Sequence Debussy
Premiere Rapsodie
Robert Gugholz (clarinet) Suisse Romande
Orchestra, conductor
Ernest Ansermet
11.08 Artist of the Week:
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli
(piano)
Beethoven Piano Sonata in E flat, Op 7
11.40 Britten
The Young Person's
Guide to the Orchestra
London Symphony
Orchestra, conducted by The Composer. Discs
A concert given at last year's Holland Festival of Early Music by the Amsterdam Baroque Choir and Orchestra, director
Ton Koopman.
Biber Sonata Sancti
Polycarpi; Requiem; In festo trium regium
Haydn Symphony No 85 in B flat (La Reine) Falla El amor brujo
Candelas, a young gypsy, is sung by Alicia Nafe (mezzo). Spoken roles: Silvia Aguilar (voice of Candelas and an older gypsy woman), Antonio Belda Egea (Candelas's lover). Lausanne Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Jesus Lopez-Cobos
Grande Sonate , Op 33 (Les quatre ages)
Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
The last of eight concerts of brass band music features the 1992 BBC Band of the Year, the Britannia Building Society Band, conductor
Howard Snell. Presented by Paul Hindmarsh.
Wilfred Heaton
Celestial Prospect Edward Gregson
Dances and Arias
John McCabe
Northern Lights Eric Ball Exodus
Philip Wilby
Lowry Sketchbook
Series producer Paul Hindmarsh
conductor Takuo Yuasa
Dvorak
Overture: Husitska
Schumann Symphony No 4 in D minor
Tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins
(1904-69) numbers among the jazz greats. In the first of six programmes, the composer Ron Geesin looks at Hawks's career from his early days in New York with the Fletcher
Henderson Band to his regular tours of Europe with his own groups and his greatest hit, Body and Soul. After this initial overview of Hawkins's life and career, each subsequent programme will trace a particular theme: the composer, the rhapsodist, the hunter, the populist ... Producer Derek Drescher
Music, news, arts news and interviews with Andrew Green
.
Producer Andrew Mussett
Opera in three acts by Handel. Text adapted by Nicola Haym from a libretto by Stefano Pallavicino. Sung in Italian. (countertenor) (sop) (countertenor) (bass) (mezzo)
The King's Consort, conductor Robert King Discs
Ballade, Op 46
Angela Brownridge (piano) Cello Sonata
Ralph Kirshbaum (cello) Roger Vignoles (piano) Discs
Michele Roberts discusses an exhibition of the paintings of Pissarro and talks to novelist Adam Mars
Jones.
Producer Noah Richler
Jonathan Swain presents seven programmes tracing the parallel development of symphony and symphonic poem.
3: Bohemia in the 1870s
Smetana Vysehrad Czech Philharmonic
Orchestra/Rafael Kubelik Dvorak
Symphony No 5 in F London Symphony
Orchestra/Istvan Kertesz Discs
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